SonicWall

Distinguished Engineer – Secure Private Access (SPA) / Zero Trust

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17 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture strategy for the Secure Private Access platform and Zero Trust technologies.
  • Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native distributed systems.
  • Influence architecture, engineering strategy, technical standards, and innovation across multiple organizations.
  • Provide technical leadership during production incidents, customer escalations, and security events, including root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
  • Advise engineering and executive leadership on technical direction and architectural decisions.
  • Mentor Principal Engineers and develop technical leadership across the organization.
  • Champion AI-enabled engineering practices and platform modernization.
  • Drive adoption of SPA architecture, next-generation capabilities, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational improvements.

Requirements

  • 15–18+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership in large-scale infrastructure, networking, or security platforms.
  • Hands-on experience contributing to complex distributed systems and cloud-scale services.
  • Deep expertise in networking and traffic processing, including data plane architectures, TCP/IP, DNS, WireGuard, and Layer 3/4/7 access enforcement.
  • Strong programming experience in Go, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages.
  • Deep understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, and identity systems.
  • Expertise in one or more of Secure Private Access, Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Service Edge, SASE, VPN/secure connectivity, or enterprise access security platforms.
  • Ability to influence engineering strategy across organizations without direct authority.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving impactful technology decisions.
  • Expertise in AI-enabled software engineering and platform modernization.
  • Ability to translate customer requirements, operational learnings, and market needs into platform and architectural investments.
  • Extensive experience leading large-scale production incident, customer escalation, and security event response, including executive communication and root cause analysis.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Pune.
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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